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Free trade and European economic development in the 19th century
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In this article, the effects of the free trade period which began around 1860 on three then "less developed" countries: France, Germany and Italy, and on the "developed" country: Great Britain, were analyzed empirically.About:
This article is published in European Economic Review.The article was published on 1972-11-01. It has received 64 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Free trade & International free trade agreement.read more
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Populism and the Economics of Globalization
TL;DR: The authors argue that economic history and economic theory both provide ample grounds for anticipating that advanced stages of economic globalization would produce a political backlash, and distinguish between left-wing and right-wing variants of populism, which differ with respect to societal cleavages that populist politicians highlight.
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Does Globalization Make the World More Unequal
TL;DR: The authors argue that the likely impact of globalization on world inequality has been very different from what these simple correlations suggest, and that the nations that gained the most from globalization are those poor ones that changed their policies to exploit it, while the ones that gain the least did not, or were too isolated to do so.
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Tariffs and Growth in the Late 19th Century
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors estimate the correlation between tariffs and economic growth in the late 19th century, in the context of three types of growth equation: unconditional convergence equations, conditional convergence equations and factor accumulation models.
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A Tariff-Growth Paradox? Protection's Impact the World Around 1875-1997
TL;DR: This paper used a new database to establish two findings covering the first globalization boom before World War I, the second since World War II, and the autarkic interlude in between.
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Around the European periphery 1870-1913: Globalization, schooling and growth
TL;DR: The authors conclude that globalization was by far the dominant force accounting for convergence (and divergence) around the periphery of the European periphery in the four or five decades prior to the First World War.
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